Meeting Jimmie Rodgers : how America's original roots music hero changed the pop sounds of a century / Barry Mazor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazor, Barry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country musicians--United States--Biography.

Country musicians.

Rodgers, Jimmie, 1897-1933.

Rodgers, Jimmie.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Introduction: Meeting Jimmie Rodgers HalfWay. 1. The Man Who Walked Into Southern Show Business. 2. Close to the Ground: The Singing Brakeman. 3. America's Blue Yodeler No. 1: This White Guy Sings Blues, Too. 5. International Multimedia Star. 6. Doomed Singer-Songwriter with Guitar. 7. The Late, Great Jimmie Rodgers. 8. South by Southwest: An Easterner in a Cowboy Hat. 11. The Father of Country Music. 12. Rough and Rowdy Ways: To the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 13. Sentiments in Context: The Return of Vaudeville Jimmie. 14. High-Powered Mamas: Women & the Music of Jimmie Rodgers. 15. Down the

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Meeting Jimmie Rodgers Halfway; One: The Man Who Walked into Southern Show Business; Two: Close to the Ground: The Singing Brakeman; Three: America's Blue Yodeler No. 1: This White Guy Sings Blues, Too; Four: America's Blue Yodeler No. 2: Instigator of Blue Yodelmania; Five: International Multimedia Star; Six: Doomed Singer-Songwriter with Guitar; Seven: Aftermath: The Late, Great Jimmie Rodgers; Eight: South by Southwest: An Easterner in a Cowboy Hat; Nine: Back East: The Hillbilly Echo, 1933-1947; Ten: Some Sort of Folksinger?; Eleven: The Father of Country Music

Twelve: Rough and Rowdy Ways: To the Rock and Roll Hall of FameThirteen: Sentiments in Context: The Return of Vaudeville Jimmie; Fourteen: High-Powered Mamas: Women and the Music of Jimmie Rodgers; Fifteen: Down the Old Road to Home; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Credits; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-361) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-988686-5

1-282-12529-X

9786612125294

0-19-971666-8

OCLC:

352906699